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Alfa Romeo is hurriedly releasing as many performance variants as it can to ride the popularity wave of the new MiTo city car. Say buongiorno to the latest 1.4-liter, turbocharged, 180-HP Alfa Romeo MiTo Veloce. More »
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In car design, the wedge is something we can appreciate. Here's our list of the top ten most influential wedge-shaped designs of the 60s, 70s and 80s. More »
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Exactly a month after we told you 84 copies of the Alfa Romeo 8C Competitzione would be coming to US shores, reader KingRoyale spotted this one parked outside the Rye, NY train station. The lusty Italian coupe apparently wore a license plate reading "001 USA" leading us to wonder if this is in fact the first Alfa Romeo sold in the US since 1995. The Alfa certainly stands out like a sore thumb against the fall backdrop, doing its job of being obnoxiously beautiful. UPDATE: Word has it this Alfa belongs to James Glickenhaus, and is his current commuter to and from the train station. More »
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Rumor has it that Alfa Romeo will be building a special 8C supercar dubbed the GTA to celebrate the company's 100th anniversary, and one reports suggests that this lightly taped mule seen near the Nurburgring is that car. What makes this red 8C different from any other 8C? The exhaust note has been described as "darker," which would aptly describe the Ferrari California's 4.3-liter direct-injection V8 that reportedly powers the rumored 8C GTA. Whether or not the GTA actually sees the light of day, we'd love to see additional speculation just for an excuse to post more 8C pictures. More »
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As big fans of the Alfa Romeo Alfetta, this New York Times profile of one abandoned Alfa in Brooklyn has touched us. Owned by a Romanian immigrant who passed away, the worn 1975 Alfetta should have been towed away after a few parking tickets because alternate side of the street parking in NYC is strictly enforced. Miraculously, an angel of Italian metal let the owner expire just days before those rules were temporarily suspended, allowing the car to live on just a bit longer. The rules were reinstated and parking tickets have accrued on the lone Alfa but, for reasons only explainable by priests or mystics (or negligent city services), the rusted Alfetta still lives on Plaza Street West. (Thanks to Tony for the tip) [NYTimes, Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times] More »
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We already knew Fiat's Alfa Romeo was bringing the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione to the US and using the Maserati distribution network to do it. We'd also heard one option Fiat was discussing was creation of a new plant in Mexico to supply North America with volume models like the 159 sedan and upcoming Mi.To and 149 hatchbacks. But what we didn't know, if the coy allusions made in an article appearing in today's Financial Times are to be believed, is that Fiat CEO Sergio "March Madness" Marchionne may be looking at snatching up excess capacity at US automakers. More »
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On Friday Murilee gave you another example of his own personal Project Car hell, a freebie his cousin left for him in Wyoming. Cry me a river, Mrs. Mr. Martin. Oh, your free car is hard to fix? Boo hoo. We're so sad. Real hell involves spending hard earned money. That way, even when you're down to your second to last knuckle, third wife and seventh torque wrench, you're certain that with just a little more lovin' your baby will be back on the streets in no time. Sure, it's been five years, but you're getting your $1350 worth, dammit! But a free car? As Easy E once sang, "I'll throw it in the gutter and go buy another." Speaking of music and love, as Murilee is off tearing ass north of San Francisco in a [CENSORED], we're stepping in to present the Summer of Love edition of Project Car Hell. Oh, did we say love? Pick either of today's choices and it can only be the summer of HELL!!!! More »
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As '70's Montreal was the only place ever where as a horrified youngster we saw grown men wearing fur coats, it seems only fitting that Alfa Romeo chose the city as the moniker for its V-8 powered coupe of the same name. The combination of 200 V-8 horsepower and quad-cam Italian styling defines the seventies in automobile form in a way only Alfa Romeo could achieve. The Alfa Romeo Montreal was first rolled out as a prototype at the 1967 Montreal EXPO, and later in pre-production form at the 1970 Geneva Auto Show. Even though Montreal Canadiens legend and later NHL Ambassador Guy Lafleur evidently had a deal for a new Chevrolet every year, we think he should have been driving a Montreal while playing for the Canadiens. – Mike Bumbeck More »
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Saturday morning in Los Angeles sometimes leads to the former broadcast home of Johnny Carson and the birthplace of the SR-71. There's something good going on at Burbank's Autobooks-Aerobooks most every Saturday morning, and sometimes the fun even stretches into the afternoon with book signings and hob-nobbing. This week the Burbank bookstore crew teamed up with the Alfa Romeo Owners of Southern California and served up a bunch of fine Italian automobiles along with the usual donuts and coffee. Autobooks-Aerobooks has been doing this sort of thing since 1951, and features toys and entertainment as well as scads of books and magazines. The Alfa Romeo owners produced not one, but two '70s-vintage quad-cam fuel injected V-8 Alfa Romeo Montreals! Find these Italian cars named after a French Canadian city and more in the gallery. – Mike Bumbeck More »
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A denizen of The Car Connection's TCC lounge caught a sketchy Alfa Romeo 166 from MY1998-2001 on the upper east side of Manhattan. To call it a gray market model may be kind of a stretch. It's actually a black-market model, considering most of these Alfas were imported illegally. Though there's always a chance this guy got some manner of exemption for his executive car, which is registered in Pennsylvania. Still, it did trigger our yen for stateside Alfas, which should arrive back on these shores by early next decade. – Mike Spinelli More »
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A sharp eyed member of the Alfa Romeo Corse Club caught these shots of what's likely a new Alfa concept being prepared for the Geneva show. They were shot outside the offices and workshop of automotive engineering and homologation firm IDIADA in Catalonia, Spain. Alfisi will be heartened to see the Brera-esque rump on this strange beast, which has likely been loaded for a trip to Geneva, where it'll likely be unveiled. Could it be the 166 replacement in prototypical form? Hell if we know. – Mike Spinelli [Thanks to Aydin for the tip.] More »
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AutoWeek bares Alfa Romeo's plan to return to the states in time for the company's centennial in 2010. As has been reported, Alfa is teaming up with Maserati on development — sharing parts and to save costs, and leveraging Maserati's US sales network to sell Alfas. Models on the way? Glad you asked: More »
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Students of the Institute of Applied Design in Turin showed off their scale-model prototype for a new Alfa Romeo B-segment car at the Bologna show earlier this month. The conceptualists-in-training drew inspiration from Alfa's 8C concept and late-sixties GT Junior for the project, which was contracted by Alfa Romeo as a design study. Despite a visual connection that's more Hyundai Tiburon GT than Alfa GT, we wouldn't mind seeing a new generation of hatchbacks that are more low slung. More »
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